Should you need any help at any point, just ask for assistance. The Library staff office (room 306) is situated near the entrance to the library, and we are more than happy to help you. Alternatively, you can send us an email.

The Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics actively endorse open access to research publications. While some journals (more information available through SHERPA/ROMEO) permit their authors to put the final, refereed version of their paper on arXiv.org or make all articles freely available after a certain time, many important journals require the payment of an article processing charge that ranges typically from 1500-3000 USD. For certain journals MPIM can cover these charges for you.

The MPIM library is a special library mainly serving the needs of scientific staff and guests of the Institute. The library collection includes books, journals, e-books, e-journals and databases. The library has also three daily newspapers in print: General Anzeiger, International New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The library functions mainly as a reference library andit is strictly forbidden to take any of the books or journals out of the building. You may, however, borrow books or journals to your office.If the resource you need for your research is not held by the MPIM library, you can make an interlibrary loan request, suggest that we buy the title or check other local libraries.

A media archive that collects documents, images, videos, and other resources related to the work and life of the MPIM's founding director Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927-2012). As the project is still ongoing, contributions of original documents such as personal photographs or video recordings of talks are welcome.